Pocket Casts
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Powerful podcast player

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Description

Pocket Casts is the world's most powerful podcast platform, an app by listeners, for listeners.Our podcast player provides next-level listening, search and discovery tools. Find your next obsession with our hand curated podcast recommendations for easy discovery, and seamlessly enjoy your favorite shows without the hassle of subscribing.

Here's what the press has to say: Wired: "Pocket Casts Is the Podcast App Every iPhone User Needs"iMore: "Pocket Casts is the best podcast app for iPhone"

With a unique set of simple yet powerful features and a limitless podcast database, you're sure to find something you love.

WE SWEAT THE DETAILSDesign: Easily listen to, manage and find new podcasts.Themes: Whether you're a dark or light theme person we've got you covered. We even have you OLED lovers covered with our Extra Dark theme.Universal: Custom but familiar iPad interface, supporting Slide Over, Split View and Picture in Picture.Everywhere: CarPlay, AirPlay, Chromecast and Sonos. Listen to your podcasts in more places than ever before.

POWERFUL PLAYBACK Up next: Automatically build a playback queue from your favorite shows. Sign in and have that Up Next queue sync to all your devices.Trim silence: Cut silences from episodes so you finish them faster, saving hours.Variable speed: Change the play speed from anywhere between 0.5 to 3x.Volume boost: Increase the volume of voices, while decreasing background noise.Stream: Play episodes on the fly.Chapters: Jump between chapters easily, and enjoy embedded artwork that the author has added (we support MP3 and M4A chapter formats).Audio & video: Play all of your favorite episodes, toggle video to audio.Skip playback: Skip episode intros, jump through episodes with custom skip intervals.Apple Watch: Control playback from our Apple Watch app, adjust the volume or change playback effects, all without ever touching your phone.Sleep timer: We'll pause your episode so you can rest your weary head.Airplay & Chromecast: Send episodes straight to your TV or speakers with a single tap.Sonos: Browse and play your podcast collection directly from the Sonos app.CarPlay: When you're in the car, so are we.

SMART TOOLS Sync: Subscriptions, Up Next, listening history, playback and filters are all securely stored in the cloud. You can pick up where you left off on another device and even the web.Refresh: Let our servers check for new episodes, so you can get on with your day.Notifications: We'll let you know when new episodes arrive, if you like.Auto download: Automatically download episodes for offline playback.Filters: Custom filters will organize your episodes.Storage: All the tools you need to keep your podcasts tamed.

ALL YOUR FAVORITES Discover: Subscribe to any podcast in iTunes and more. Browse by charts, networks and categories.Share: Spread the word with podcast and episode sharing.OPML: Jump on board without any hassle with OPML import. Export your collection at any time.

There are many more powerful, straight-forward features that make Pocket Casts the perfect podcasting app for you. So what are you waiting for?

Visit pocketcasts.com for more info about the web and other platforms supported by Pocket Casts.

What’s New

Jul 21, 2019

Version 7.4

What's with all the apps getting hip version numbers now? 2019.4?! I get it, it's the fourth 2019 build but you just know regular people are going to confuse the 4 for April, so I give this new system one star out of five. Bucking the trend and bringing you 7.4 (sorry to those of you that think this came from 7AD and is suuuuuper old now)- Added keyboard shortcuts for iPad. Zip around the UI. Play, pause, skip and more. Let your fingers do the talking!- More improvements to syncing, especially for those that play podcasts they aren't subscribed to. We get it, commitment is scary.- Fixed an issue that could cause your Up Next list to be cleared (thanks to the beta testers who helped us find this)- Fixed an issue that could cause you to not be able to subscribe to a podcast. Goes with the issue above really, no excuses anymore.- Fixed re-arrange controls being missing in Up Next for a certain redacted, yet public, shall we say fruity beta OS- Full screen video player now hides the status bar like it should- Other small (and large but hard to describe) improvements, as always!

Ratings and Reviews

3.4 out of 5

777 Ratings

777 Ratings

cecoleman
, 07/18/2019

Syncing is still really bad if you listen on two devices.

There are many good things about PocketCast (Video Support, Playback Effects, background downloading, notifications, etc.). But there are three things that bother me. 1) If you listen on an iPad and and iPhone regularly your syncing will be messed up all the time. For instance, open iPad app and watch a video show. Then open on your phone later an audio show and stop. Perhaps that evening you open your iPad again to resume the video you were watching that morning. It will sync the iPad back to your iPhone the play position of your audio podcast from that morning, not where you left off on your iPhone later in the day. I’m constantly opening Pocket Casts on my phone to find that my listening position was reverted back 20-30 minutes earlier than I left off. 2) I think the playback screen has an unnecessary bar at the bottom with the tools. Remove that bar and just put the icons for playback effects and others without it. 3) The cover art for the podcast is not centered properly on the iPhone X, XS, and XS Max iPhone. That’s just poor design. Please Russell and Co. fix these problems.

idontwantafrigginnickame
, 03/10/2019

Bad update, unprofessional response

I was glad to find Pocket Casts at first. It was a decent cross-platform app, with a couple weird quirks, but the best option for me. I opted into the beta and wasn’t as fond of it, but decided to give it some time for me to adjust and explore. Some basic, useful features were lacking or implemented strangely and the UI change was a huge step back, considerably less intuitive.

Unfortunately, they didn’t really improve on any of these problems for the release despite feedback from users. I know it’s impossible to give every user what they want. Plus, so many users are too entitled and demanding. That doesn’t warrant not listening to them at all, or responding flippantly and condescendingly to feedback. Many of the developer responses have been deleted because it “doesn’t represent who they are” (except ... yes it does, because that’s literally how they’re representing themselves). I’m not surprised to see the drop in their ratings, which they reset recently in hopes of erasing the negative ones, I guess?

They already have the money of existing users, so maybe they don’t feel like it’s as important to respect them. But I know I will no longer be recommending Pocket Casts to anyone else. Fortunately, there are cross-platform alternatives I look forward to checking out instead, like Castbox.

Pinball Lizard
, 05/15/2019

Differences from 6.x to 7.3

It’s now a better tool for episode cherry-pickers. The ability to sort by Downloaded status brings the 5 you’ve pulled down from a list of 500 to the fore. It’s strange that you cannot now, by default, tell a downloaded episode from an undownloaded one, but there’s a setting to fix that.

I also appreciate the new option to delay the deletion of a completed episode for 24 hours. Combined with a new End Of Episode setting for the sleep timer, this removes the stress of falling asleep to an episode you might run off the end of.

For my uses, the only downside, and a minor one at that, is reduced information density in the episode list. You can’t see as many on a screen anymore, and the new, omnipresent Search field (rarely useful) takes up additional vertical space, making a very small knothole indeed when combined with the miniplayer and bottom toolbar. I’d suggest making Search show only when pulling from the very top of the list, as is a convention in many other apps, or just let me scroll it off the page as the episode list scrolls.